Omori Sogen: The Art of a Oen Master Book

From the late nineteenth century occult circles of Western Europe emerged a figure called Rene Guenon who began to write highly authoritative books on metaphysics and philosophy and theology. He inspired a Sri Lankan academic called Coomaraswamy to make his own contributions; and Frithjof Schuon and Huston Smith and others in turn followed suit. The name of the Philosophia Perennis (attributed to Leibnitz), or the Tradition, came to be affixed to their belief system, which was essentially that all religions throughout history share the same set of insights. The Tradition is fiercely anti-modern, pro-ecology and elitist. Quinn is a good guide to this world and in fact his book is just about the only introduction to the Tradition which exists.